EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATION HISTORY
- Bing R&D, Microsoft, Redmond, WA 98052
Principal Applied Scientist, July 2009 -- current.
- Yahoo! Labs, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Principal Scientist, June 2007 -- June 2009.
Worked on machine learning algorithms for text analysis and summarization.
- IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA.
Research Staff Member. February 2001- May 2007.
Worked on information extraction from text, document ranking, biomedical information retrieval,
ontology mapping from MEDLINE and patent documents; web search; Erasure code design and evaluation
for storage systems; autonomic computing for storage and databases.
- University of Maryland,
Language and Media Processing Lab, Center for Automation Research,
College Park, MD.
Co-Director (1999-2001), Research Scientist (1997-1999)
The lab had 21 students and faculty working on language and media processing. I directed the research
of 7 students in multilingual document image analysis
and information retrieval; With colleagues raised over 3 million dollars of government and industry
funding including NSF, DARPA, NSA, ARL and SAIC; Graduated 1 PhD and 4 MS students.
- Caere Corporation, Los Gatos, CA.
Senior Software Engineer, March 1996 to September 1997.
Worked on multilingual document image analysis, performance evaluation, dataset creation; multiligual algorithm is
part of the
OmniPage
OCR product currently sold by
ScanSoft/Nuance .
- Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Visiting Industrial Fellow, 1996-1997.
- University of Washington , Intelligent Systems Laboratory,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Seattle, WA.
Graduate Research Assistant, 1988-1996.
Worked on document image analysis, performance evaluation, mathematical morphology and image
segmentation.
- AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ.
Summer 1994
Worked on document degradation model validation and parameter estimation.
- IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA.
Summer 1993.
Worked on Minimum Description Length image segmentation for the
QBIC image database.
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India,
research scholar, 1986-88; visiting student, summer 1985.
Worked on speech coding, line spectral representation of speech, cursive script characterization using LPC model.
- Bhaba Atomic Research Center, Bombay, India
visiting student, summer, 1984
Worked on microprocessor-based display controllers.
- Electronics and Communications Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India.
Undergraduate education, 1982-86